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SPIC's annual turnover is over Rs. 2,000 crores. When SPIC was incorporated in 1969, it was the
first joint sector project ever in India. In 1975, as SPIC s Fertiliser Complex in Tuticorin went on
stream, it was as the largest naptha based plant in Asia and largest urea plant anywhere in the world.
Today, SPIC has capacities to manufacture nitrogenous, phosphate and ammonia fertilisers,
sulphuric and phosphoric acids. The fertiliser complex also generates by-products in the form of
gypsum and aluminium fluoride (over 3,000 tonnes p.a.).
SPIC s partners in different sectors include the Technip Group of France (Technip India Ltd.); the
Jordan Phosphate Mines Company Ltd., Jordan, and the Arab Investment Company (Indo Jordan
Chemicals Company Ltd.); Jurong Engineering Ltd.(SPIC JEL Engineering Construction Ltd.) and
the Emirates Trading Agency, Dubai (SPIC Fertilizers and Chemicals FZE).
SPIC s corporate leadership has created its own distinct attitude towards society in general and
rural society in particular. SPIC and its affiliated Trusts and Foundations firmly believe that the
nation can progress only on the
It must be the responsibility of not only the
strength of a strong, prosperous and
Government but also of the society, including
healthy rural society.
NGOs and Corporate houses such as ours, to find
The MAC (Medical) Foundation was
and create the ways and means for meaningful
established by Dr. M. A.
economic opportunities for the rural populace.
Chidambaram, founder of the SPIC
We need to provide the right inputs at the right
Group, in 1983. Dr. Chidambaram s
time, guide them with the know how at the
son, Dr. A. C. Muthiah who is the
grassroots level and empower them with adequate
present Chairman, later founded the
knowledge, information and skills which will
ACM Trust to expand upon his
automatically lead to improved quality of life.
father s work. It is these foundations
that have undertaken SPIC s health
Dr. A.C. Muthiah, Chairman, SPIC Group
and education initiatives.
3. Project History and Development
This case study is in two parts; the first of which provides insight into health initiatives undertaken
by the MAC Foundation; the second of which considers the ACM Trust s work in the education
sector.
3.1. Health Initiatives MAC (Medical) Foundation
SPIC s Primary Health Care initiative is an attempt to increase the availability of (and
accessibility to) health services in rural areas. It is a comprehensive package with an integrated
approach of curative, preventive and promotional services involving health education, which
encompasses education on better nutrition, proper sanitation, optimal maternal and child health
care, communicable disease control, immunisation and other measures.
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3.2 Identification of Villages
With the experience gained in running the Primary Health Care Centre at Thuraipakkam, a
suburban village of Chennai City since the year 1976, it was decided to extend the same health care
facilities to villagers in hamlets in districts further south. Many rural pockets do not have any
medical facilities within a radius of 3-4 kms. A new Trust called the A. C. Muthiah Trust was
established in March 1996 with the objective of providing such health care facilities in these remote
pockets. A Development Officer, a postgraduate in Social Work, was appointed for this purpose and
he was given the task of identifying villages in the disadvantaged districts in the south for the
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